Yes, I will take care of him and find strawberries for him. Can I try blueberries with him too?

But a fruit is just part of a plant. Even better: it's a part of the plant that the plant wants someone to eat. Because that's how the plant's seeds get distributed in nature. So it probably even hurts their feelings if you don't eat them.

yeah, just make sure he doesn't turn blue...

It's like:

"What, I'm not a good enough fruit for you to eat me?"

It makes them all sad.

well, if i were a fruit i wouldn't like to be eaten.

that's because they're brainwashed to believe in "the afterlife"...

I'm confused:

Fruits got brains?

Someone washes them?

For all we know, that is a fruit's idea of Heaven ...

Thanks ye all.... I have to go. Now don't go crazy with the debate over food thing while I'm gone!!!!

bye finding, thanks for helping me feel a little better:)

"Crazy"-errrr, you mean. ;-)

See you. Don't forget to take your vegetarian totem with you ...

would you like to be eaten?

Sweety, this is the point: even if I agree with you that "everything" has feelings, I have an even harder time believing that all of "their" feelings are exactly the same as mine.

There are humans who gladly die for what they feel is important, whether it's religion, politics, or to protect their children. I don't feel the way they do (at least about religion or politics). Why should I assume that a fruit, which contains the seeds of its plant and is the only way those seed will get spread to make new plants, isn't glad to die so its plant will get to have babies?

well really it's kind of like you said, fruit doesn't have brains, no brains, no feelings, maybe I am missing something here??

good point. but i'm still not eating fruit..

So we're still back to an ice cream-only diet? :-)

well I hate to say it, but icecream has things in it that come from plants

The point I'm trying to make is that if milk, which is an animal product but not an animal, is okay, then why not a fruit, which is a plant product but not a whole plant?

a no-food diet would probably be better. what if ice-cream has feelings...?

it doesn't

how do you know?

like I said, you need a brain to feel.

how do you know it has no brain? maybe it's brain is invisible..? ya know when ya get brainfreeze..? maybe that's the ice-cream fighting for it's life..

I can see the point that is made about not eating meat, but when it comes to fruit and vegetables, I'm not getting it.

Blossom, sweety, you have a really great imagination.

But you seem to be using it to make sure you're evil for eating. That exact same thought could be turned around: Maybe brainfreeze is ice cream showing you how good it feels to be eaten, so slow down and enjoy it.

Brain freeze is the pain sometimes inflicted by devouring something cold like ice cream or a cold beverage, often very quickly.

The reaction is (obviously) triggered by the cold ice cream or beverage; coming into contact with the roof of the mouth. It triggers nerves that give the brain the impression of a very cold environment. To heat up the brain again, blood vessels start to swell, which causes the headache-like pain for approximately 30 seconds